Introducing Pervasive DataRush

Mike Hoskins, CTO Pervasive Software, introduces Pervasive DataRush. He discusses the data challenges that led Pervasive Software to develop this new technology. [view video]

Chip vendors such as Azul Systems, Sun Microsystems, AMD, IBM and Intel have transformed the multi-processor SMP server landscape with their recent introductions of 2, 4, 8 and even 48 core processors. Most predict 80+ cores per chip by the year 2010. This means "commodity SMP" servers with 16-32 cores are now available.

The problem? For decades, most applications built to perform data-intensive processing were not architected with 2, 4, 8 or even 10's of cores in mind. Legacy programming languages such as COBOL and Fortran do not provide easy to use concurrent programming frameworks, nor do today's most common languages such as Java, C++, Perl and Python.

Software developers must change their implementation methodologies now, before the disconnect between hardware capabilities and software design leads to massively underutilized computing power in the datacenter.

Pervasive DataRush is a 100% Java framework that allows developers to quickly build highly parallel, data-intensive applications that take full advantage of multicore, SMP platforms. No specialized knowledge is required in threading, concurrent memory access, deadlock detection, data workload partitioning/buffering or any other complex aspect of parallel thread execution.

In this section, learn more about Pervasive DataRush, its technology, and its benefits.

Technology

The Technology page explains the new challenges created by multi-core architectures, and the n­ew technology provided by Pervasive DataRush to meet those challenges.

FAQ

The FAQ page answers some frequently asked questions about Pervasive DataRush.

More Info

Finally, here is a product sheet and product presentation